Stuart Klipper

Stuart Klipper (born 1941 in Bronx, New York City) is an American photographer.

Biography
He lived in Stockholm, Sweden, but then moved to his current residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1970.

He lived in Brooklyn Heights as well as the near to it Cobble Hill neighborhood (also in Brooklyn, New York) soon after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1962, and before he moved to Minneapolis in 1970.

Klipper has made six journeys to Antarctica to take photographs. He has also worked in Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Alaska, and the area of Lapland irradiated by the Chernobyl disaster. Klipper became one of approximately 400 people to have stood at both the South Pole and the North Pole on July 15, 2009, when he visited the North Pole.

Other major forays have taken Klipper across the deserts of Israel and Sinai as well as the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica. Klipper's work has also taken him to Northern Australia, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

He has logged thousands of miles traveling at sea while photographing on all of the Earth's oceans and seas.

For over 30 years, Klipper traveled through the 50 United States, capturing photographs that crystallize the defining characteristics of American regions. He also photographed major physics and astronomy research installations throughout the United States and the Anasazi ruins of the Southwest.

Klipper has also photographed the cemeteries of World War I and memorials of the Western Front.

Klipper's photographs have been exhibited in and collected by major museums from both the United States and overseas. These include New York City's Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, The Jewish Museum, The Israel Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bonn Kunsthalle, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Guggenheim Foundation, The Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board have all awarded Klipper multiple grants.

Notable exhibitions
Klipper has exhibited across the United States, as well as the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway; United States embassy, Santiago, Chile; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Kunsthalle of the German Republic, Bonn, Germany and the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand

Grants, honors, and fellowships

 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1979, 1989
 * Bush Foundation (St. Paul), 1981, 1992
 * National Endowment for the Arts, 1976, 1979
 * National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981
 * McKnight Foundation, St. Paul/Mpls. – three grants
 * The Minnesota State Arts Board – three grants
 * The Jerome Foundation, 2003
 * The Bogliasco Foundation (N. Y. C. & Genoa, Italy), 2003
 * The National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2000
 * Nominee, McKnight Distinguished Minnesota Artist Award, 2005, 2006, 2007
 * Finalist, Bush Enduring Visions Award, 2008
 * Nominee, MacArthur Fellowship, 2008

Klipper was recipient of the United States Navy Antarctic Service Medal, 1989

Notable commissions

 * The State of Texas, Cray Research Corp., the State of Minnesota, First Banks Systems (Mpls.), the Valspar Corp. (Mpls.), the University of Minnesota.

Solo exhibitions

 * Disparate Geographies, Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, 1998.
 * Sixteen polar photographs, Arktis -Antarktis, the Kunsthalle des Deutschesrepublic, Bonn, Germany. 1998


 * Cardinal Points, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. (Photographs from polar regions: Antarctica and Greenland, the tropical rain forests, the desert regions of Israel and the Sinai, the agricultural Great Plains)-- an exhibition catalogue was published. 1998
 * At Sea Near the Poles, at the Spencer Gallery, Wickford, R.I. 1999
 * Antarctica 99/00, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, 2000
 * Selected Antarctic Work, Berler Gallery, Washington D.C., 2001 (Also shown in Denver and Christchurch, N.Z.


 * Selected American photographs, The Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Va., 2001
 * Photographs from the Arctic and Antarctica, Smith-Dean Gallery, Phila., PA, 2001
 * Wyoming, Univ. of Wyoming Museum Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2001/02


 * In the Australian Outback, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, 2002
 * The United States, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY, 2002
 * Rock art, bush fire, termite mounds and other aspects of the outback of the Top End of Australia, Gallery 360, Mpls.,2002


 * Portraits about Pakistan, 1987, Icebox Gallery, Mpls., 2002
 * Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica's First Highway, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 2002


 * The Louisiana Purchase, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis & Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, 2003


 * Selected photographs, Medtronics Corp. corporate headquarters, Minneapolis, 2006
 * Antarctica, Electrolift Artworks, Minneapolis, Minn. 2006 (+ other venues)
 * 20 Years of photographing Louisiana, The Ogden Museum, New Orleans, 2008
 * Antarctic Photographs, City Museum of Charleston, S.C., 2009
 * Local Places – Remote Terrains, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, 2009
 * The Dead Sea Region, Israel, The Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, 2010

Group exhibitions

 * Photography of New York City, Minneapolis Institute of Art. 1998
 * Sea Change, The Center for Creative Photography, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. (An eponymous book was published in conjunction with the exhibition and is in national distribution), 1998/99
 * American farms and farming, Candace Perish Gallery, Katonah, NY. (Traveled to Washington D. C.), 1998/99
 * Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, NYC. 1999
 * Claiming Title: Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land, St, Olaf & Carleton Colleges, Northfield, Minn., 1999
 * The Infinite and the Intimate; Waterscapes of Stuart Klipper and Frank Gohlke, Dorsky Gallery, N.Y.C. 1999
 * An Eclectic Focus: Photographs from the Vernon Collection ( + catalogue), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999
 * Aqua, Gallerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France 1999
 * Restructuring the Prairie, Grinnell College, 1999
 * The Mural as Muse, Deutsches Bank Gallery, NYC, 2000
 * earth sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2000
 * Western Panoramas, Huntington Museum, Sta. Barbara, CA, 2001
 * I Love New York (W. T. C benefit), NYC, 2001
 * Melodrama, inaugural show, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain, 2002
 * Contemporary Desert Photography, Palm Springs Art Museum, 2005
 * Antarctic Visions & Voices, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., 2005
 * Downriver: New Orleans before the flood, Minnesota Center for Photography, 2006
 * Midwestern View: Contemporary Photography in Minnesota, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2007
 * Visions of Music, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, La., 2007
 * Four Antarctic Photographers, Museum of Art, Univ. of Wyo., 2007
 * Photographs from the Ends of the Earth, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007
 * Antarctica on Thin Ice, The United Nations, NYC, 2007
 * Remembering Dakota, The North Dakota Museum of Art, 2008
 * Animals –Them and Us, The North Dakota Museum of Art, 2009
 * NSF Antarctic Artists, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Md., 2009
 * New Orleans photographs, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, 2009
 * The Minnesota Eye, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, 2009